What Future 2050

18/09/2023

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It’s so hard to live as an authentic human being in a civilization whose every molecule is wrapped around something as vapid and soulless as corporate profit. It’s what most of us pour most of our life force into. Most people work all d...

05/09/2023

"We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind." ~ Edward Bernays
Book: https://amzn.to/44Dljfb
"Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p. 37 - 38), 1928.

05/08/2023

Today's extreme, freak events are likely to be tomorrow's norms.Why can't many people see the trend of where we're heading to? Something called "anecdotal fallacy" explains why.

04/08/2023

03/08/2023

Today's extreme, freak events are likely to be tomorrow's norms. Something called "anecdotal fallacy" stops many people from seeing that.

03/08/2023

Today's extreme, freak events are likely to be tomorrow's norms. Something called "anecdotal fallacy" stops many people from seeing that.

05/07/2023

Canada shows what the worsening crisis can do to an economy
Source article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/business/economy/canada-wildfires-economy.html

05/07/2023

: The impacts are hitting hard now but the assumptions for climate models don't factor them in

You can't deal with a problem is you don't know how bad it is. A conservative approach to climate modelling is underplaying what will happen.
Article: https://www.ft.com/content/a5027391-41a4-4e21-a72d-f8189d6a7b71 (free not paywall)

05/06/2023

How are you dealing with the way the world has gone from one crisis to another in recent years? Instability is becoming the norm, people are internalising this and reacting in different ways. This is one diagnosis from Accenture, what do you think? Do you recognise this in yourself or others?
Article: https://www.accenture.com/gb-en/insights/song/accenture-life-trends

04/06/2023

Recycling is a partial solution that can be badly executed. The details in this Twitter Thread are shocking: https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR/status/1664789548000501761?s=20

A better solution would be to not create the excess in the first place. But that's a big challenge to how our economies work. Working out how to resolve this should be getting more focus.

04/06/2023

Nothing will affect we will have more than the . We can passively roll with whatever it brings or we can use it as the opportunity to rethink how society work so that we're never in such a dangerous position again.

03/06/2023

feels like its changing what the future looks like right now. It's only one of several technologies that can do that. Here's a brief rundown of the others.
Source article: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/technology-trends-top-10-mckinsey/

02/06/2023

We need to change how we see the . Yes it will be bad and cause much damage. We have the choice to be passive victims to it OR to actively use it to create a better future where the way we run society can't ever put us in this jepoardy again.

01/06/2023

The gets a lot of focus as the big force impacting we'll have. The challenge is that it's not the only one, we have a number of crises and forces affecting our future.

01/06/2023

The is one of the biggest forces impacting we'll have. Nothing is set, we still have time to stop it getting much worse. How we do that has to be our No1 priority.
Follow this on Twitter list for updates from some of the best voices on this vital issue: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1361266226945794050?s=20

31/05/2023

All change! A new look and new focus. The world is changing at break neck speed and we're heading to a very different future. There isn't enough attention or discussion on this. So, the focus here will be on what future we want, the default or one we shape? Content will develop, stay tuned!

30/05/2023

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27/05/2023

"The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads." ~ Carl Jung
Book: https://amzn.to/45vBeO2
The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (Collected Works of C. G. Jung) by C.G. Jung (Author), R.F.C. Hull

11/05/2023

| Global warming increases ocean temperatures and strips the seas of oxygen "

Our future ocean, warmer and oxygen-deprived, will not only hold fewer kinds of fish, but also smaller, stunted fish and..more greenhouse gas producing bacteria"

Source article: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-ocean-oxygen-levels-dip-fish-face-an-uncertain-future

10/04/2023

| Sea level rise happening faster than forecast
Details in the tweet.

“Time to sell up before no-one wants to buy. An astonishing 5" of sea-level rise in Gulf of Mexico and SE US coast in the last 15 years, and another 12 predicted in next 25 or so. https://t.co/00NBf7Jkvb”